Re: Status of ipcclean - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Status of ipcclean
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.30.0108281736300.699-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: Status of ipcclean  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> I believe that ipcclean is no longer needed for preparing to start a new
> postmaster.  It might possibly be useful if you wanted to clean up after
> a dead postmaster that you did *not* intend to restart.
>
> However, given the lack of portability and lack of robustness of the
> script (including inability to deal with multiple-postmaster
> situations), I think I'd vote for removing it altogether.

Can other people voice their opinions what to do with ipcclean?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net   http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter



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